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Strangely I found myself struggling to pick up Standard ML despite having experience in C++ compared to my peers with no programming experience. It seems that t

• agumonkey 13y ago
  In case you're not learning from it, allow me to 'advertise' Coursera's proglang. A third of about sml (after racket and ruby) and it was pure joy, the language core and syntax is very tiny (unlike it's type error messages hehe).
• tfgg 13y ago
  It's an incredible experience when the bit flips in your brain and you start understanding recursion and top-down design. I don't use ML any more, but it's definitely affected my coding and problem solving style :) Also, I once heard that Larry Paulson stopped going to a certain college's annual computer science dinner because he was hit with a pineapple during a food fight. Bastards.